Elias S.

Elias S.

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Staff Engineering Lead | ideal for those breaking in or leveling up

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Studied at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science

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Works at HubSpot

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Available January 6 at 3:00 PM UTC

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Elias’s Software Engineering Qualifications

Experience level: Director

10+ people coached for Software Engineering

I designed and built most of HubSpot's observability platform, and have handled realtime (sub-15s latency) streams of millions of datapoints per minute, and terabytes per day. I've improved Amazon's open source balancing algorithm for Kinesis to support downtime-free rebalancing over thousands of concurrent shards. I wrote the first endorsed Java client for Slack (see https://github.com/HubSpot/slack-client), and served on the customer advisory board for SignalFx/Splunk/Cisco's monitoring solution for years. Industry leading companies (like SignalFx and PagerDuty) have sent product managers and principal engineers to shadow my teams looking for inspiration in my designs - professionally, I seek and push the envelope of industry.

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About Elias

As a skilled technologist with a decade of experience building high performance software and teams in big tech at a 1B+ unicorn and a theoretical background in computer science from Carnegie Mellon, I can help you break into tech, or take it to the next level. As someone who has been a hiring manager, and conducted countless interviews for roles from entry level to director, I can help you prep for that next try. As someone who has successfully climbed from an entry role to the staff level, I can help coach you on how to get there yourself. Most of my success has come from a combination of learning from mistakes, and luck. Luck, you can't control. But you CAN control how you respond when you invariably get things wrong, and I believe the difference between those that go far and those that plateau is whether they are willing to embrace the discomfort, and do the hard work of self-improvement. If you are willing to put yourself out there, listen openly to the feedback you receive, and iterate on yourself as if you were the product, you can go so far. If that's what you'd like to do, I'd love to help you do it more efficiently than I have, and perhaps avoid the specific bumps and hurdles I hit.

Work Experience

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Staff Engineering Lead

HubSpot

April 2023 - Present

Hiring Manager

I'm a hands-on technical leader, responsible for observability, organizational best practices, and reliability. I build high performance teams, which build high performance software to enable and encourage reliability at scale.

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Engineering Team Lead

HubSpot

October 2020 - April 2023

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I ran the observability teams, helping build high performance teams building high performance software to monitor tremendous scale. I'm passionate about building highly available systems by focusing on the intersection of quality software, informative analytics, and the human needs of the engineers responsible for keeping it all working.

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Technical Lead

HubSpot

October 2017 - October 2020

I ran the platform monitoring and alerting team at HubSpot. My team is focused on three core goals: building systems to reduce the friction developers experience monitoring the health of their services, ensuring that they are notified promptly in the case of system failure, and dynamically detecting and adjusting to novel error conditions in the wild.

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Visiting Researcher

École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

May 2015 - August 2015

My research focused on discrete optimization and was primarily on scheduling problems for multi-resource jobs run over networks.

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Software Engineering Intern

Indeed

May 2014 - August 2014

As an engineering intern with the jobsearch backend team, I developed a distributed, fault-tolerant decentralized ticketing service from the ground up. The service is highly horizontally scalable, and eliminates a single point of failure in the processing pipeline.

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Teaching Assistant

Carnegie Mellon University

August 2013 - January 2014

I led a recitation of 30 students twice per week, held office hours, and assisted with grading.

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Intern

Intel

May 2013 - August 2013

I led a team of graduate students investigating detection techniques for beyond 4G wireless communications. My team investigated several MIMO detection algorithms, before eventually developing a novel detection algorithm, and producing models to verify performance. The conference paper describing our work was accepted for publication in IEEE SiPS 2014, and the two filed patents are pending.

Education

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Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science

Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science

2011 - 2015

Honors and Awards: Alumni Award for Undergraduate Excellence (best undergraduate thesis) Andrew Carnegie Society Scholar (top 40 seniors for leadership, scholarship, and achievement) Member of Phi Beta Kappa – National Honor Society Member of Phi Sigma Iota – International Foreign Languages Honor Society Member of Tau Beta Pi – National Engineering Honor Society Member of Eta Kappa Nu – National Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society Member of Order of Omega – National Greek Honor Society (top 3%) Dean’s List, Fall 2011 - Spring 2014

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